| Character | Key | Attack Potency | Votes |
| Delta | Virtual Tournament Arc, 50% Power | 63.82 Megatons of TNT | 0 |
| Dark Hearted | Monster | 25 Megatons of TNT | 3 |
| Inconclusive | 0 |
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Okay, while all of that's nice, Delta is going to be starting off with speed amps making it much harder for Dark to hit him, and you still haven't given a possible way for Dark to counter Delta's Paralysis Inducement.
I'm going with the assumption that Delta's paralysis will only work should he land a hit of his own (if it's an automatic paralysis lasting for hours that would be to op for this tourney), and even with speed amps it'll be difficult because:
fear manip would definitely be able to hold Delta in place for a bit, but he can easily counter Dark's afterimage dodging by firing his electricity in a massive wave similar to how he dealt with a horde of zombie gingerbread men (yes, you read that correctly). Also, how much stronger can Dark Hearted grow? Delta does have a 2.55x AP advantage.
That’s a good way to deal with afterimages for sure
Delta, like you said, doesn't typically get angry or frustrated during fights (mostly because in almost all of his fights, he curb stomped his opponent), so rage eating wouldn't help much.
Trying to get close to Delta would basically be suicide for Dark because the second he gets close, Delta grapples, and he's over 1000x stronger in terms of LS.
Yes, for this reason, Dark will keep his plan of using the vibrations of his martial art to attack.
The passive electricity surrounding Delta when he uses over 5 percent of his power. This is especially true at 50%. Also his starting speed amps have a sort of hyperawareness effect on himself, so it would be hard for Dark to hide with Delta constantly on his *ss. Also, we've already established that Delta would get Dark with his wave of electricity the second he starts pulling his afterimage shenanigans, and this electricity wave would be one of Delta's stronger attacks, which have a high chance of causing paralysis on foes that don't have electricity resistance, which Dark doesn't.
How so?
As a martial artist and former hero, he is definitely experienced in no-holds-barred kinds of fights, which this is shaping up to be. As long as Delta can't spam lightning waves, Dark should be fine, granted he still can't exactly approach him, making it even more difficult. He does still have ways to attack, as I have defined, though.
We also established that Dark's fear manip will hold Delta in place for a bit, and on top of that Dark Heart Quake will stagger him pretty good. On top of fear and the quake, Delta will need a decent time to recover before he can even start the wave attack, during which Dark can do pretty much whatever he wants to do. I believe that upon the initial quake, while Delta is staggered and fearful, Dark will use Dark Heart Stone Shot, casting rubble towards him like heavy shrapnel. With that move, he can attack without risking getting hurt by the passive electric ability.
Speaking of this, how much effect does the location have on the battle? Downtown Chicago has a lot of humans (not to mention it specifically being a 'busy street' on top of this), and as a superhero, I'm assuming that it's in Delta's interest to protect them, and it sounds like his wave would get pretty destructive. will he still pull the trigger in this situation?
Well, he is part of a hero group and has otherworldly powers, so for all intents and purposes he might as well be an A or S Class of the New Hero Association
Dark has absolutely no prior knowledge. How would he know to keep his distance?
I should've specified the city is evacuated. There are still cars on the streets and such though.
He's more the equivalent of B or A Class in Stick Gang.Well, he is part of a hero group and has otherworldly powers, so for all intents and purposes he might as well be an A or S Class of the New Hero Association
It would be a bit strange to have a passive electric field that can’t be seen (it also came to my attention that the profile doesn’t say anything about the passive field at all either), so I’m assuming that all Dark needs to do is see it, since it would be foolish to charge into it blindly (thereby keeping distance). Dark also has enhanced senses and can tell what Delta is feeling, so he may be able to deduce what he might do just based on that
Ah, yeah that makes more sense lol
), monsters usually have naturally high stamina anyway
Wouldn't it be kind of hard for Dark to tell what Delta is feeling with him constantly moving over 3x faster than Dark?
You said it yourself that this fight is only a minute or two long so far.Something also that hasn’t been mentioned yet is that Dark looks like he has much higher stamina, since Delta is listed as athletic and Dark is more around the superhuman range (even though I just listed it as ‘high’ for some reason
Not entirely, Dark doesn’t need to keep his eyes on Delta for his enhanced senses to kick in, it works as long as they are around each other, so there’s not really a way for Delta to avoid it
The three times faster thing is a low ball. Amped Delta should be faster than that. Dark won't be able to dodge at all if Delta gets lucky and paralyzes Dark with the first electricity wave, leaving him completely open to attack. Delta still has a solid AP advantage so it would be hard for Dark to hurt him.
I think it depends on how big the electric waves are. If they are massive or something far larger than Dark himself, he won’t underestimate Delta at all (he probably already sees him like an S Class hero regardless at this point). If he feels that he’ll die, he won’t hesitate to use any of his moves, including his biggest one.
How fast exactly is Delta?
I’m still not so sure myself. How often can Delta shoot electric waves?
I'd say every few seconds
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